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Trial Gardens, Park Seed Company, Greenwood SC USA. July 2004. These
plants did not impress too much, being paler and more narrow rayed
than expected from photos on the Chicago Botanical Garden website. In
fairness, the plants here are just first year flowering stock and one
could
hope for more robustness and floriferous attributes down the road. That
said, a few people growing it will not be delighted if they are hoping
for
orange hues in the richness of Gaillardia and Zinnia.

fc: rays reddish-orange, a true color
breakthrough, more red in the bud stage
ff: slight spicy orange scent
lc: dark green
or: Chicago Botanic Garden c. 2002 from E. purpurea, paradoxa, and perhaps other
germplasm. This is, we believe, the first of various
or: new color hybrids from this breeding program.

fc: rays
white
eval: the original white. New variants like 'White Luster' and
'White Swan' are larger-flowered.
eval: 'Cygnet White' is the most short white to date (2002). 'Alaska' is also
sold as a replacement for this name.

ns: a listed name from Pro-Veg Seeds Ltd.
and entered in the RHS trials.
eval: one US trial stated this strain had the highest biomass of major
horticultural cultivars.

Echinacea purpurea 'Crimson Star'
('Springbrook's Crimson Star')

ht: 24-36
in.
fc: bright crimson-red, fading pinkish with darker base. It is
sold as non-fading but it does.
ft: rays horizontal, not drooping or reflexed
or: Springbrook Gardens

Echinacea purpurea 'Cygnet White'
('Cygnet')

ht: 15-24
in. - usually closer to 20 in.
fc: white
lu: suitable for use with 'Kims Knee High' to provide two colors
in
lu: low stature in the foreground.
prop: also sold in seed strain form so it can vary. Can bloom the
first year from seed.
aw: Perennial Plant of the Year 1998

ht: 24-48
in. - reported vary but usually one of the taller ones
fc: rays dark but bright pink, a good shade lacking purple tints
ft: rays more horizontal
aw: Perennial Plant Association Plant of the Year 1998 - once
agan they are
aw: very late on the trend.
eval: a good plant but is can self-seed and prove a nuisance on
some sites. It
eval: now considered that 'Ruby Giant' is a better entity.
or: Magnus Nilsson, Sweden

fc:
carmine-pink, center greenish
ft: very large, full anemone-like center, these petals very
fringed. The normal outer
ft: rays occur at the base but are almost unneeded so full is the
center.
ns: it should be noted there is an Echincea health drink called
"Razzamatazz" and
ns: it is likely unrelated.
ph, so: CNB (online catalog
2002)

ht:
apparently shorter as the name 'Nana' was in use for it
or: Alfred Weinrich 1985
so: listed as rare by NCCPG Pink Sheet

Echinacea purpurea 'White Nathalie' (11/3)

ns: listed name by the ISU 2000 for
Monique Dumas-Quesnel. Not internet or catalog listing known (2003)

Echinacea purpurea 'White Luster'
('White Lustre')

ht: 30 in.
fc: rays white, disk yellowish-brown
ft: rays reflexed
or: US
ns: being of American origin it should not be spelled in the
Europe way.

Echinacea purpurea 'White Swan'

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Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus, Ohio. Summer 2003. There are few
places where perennials and model trains associate so well together.
Here
'White Swan' and the species dwarfing the locomotive as in some land
that time forgot. But if one believes all the hype about future
Echinacea breeding
programs, no doubt there will be capitula a full ten feet across and in
all colors of the rainbow.

ht: 18-30
in. - size varies, often shorter than 'White Luster'
fd: rays pure white, cone bronze or brownish. New flowers are
quite green.
ft: rays drooping nicely and uniformly so it gives a good effect.
fd: heads 3-4 in. wide
ff: said to have a stronger, honey-like scent
in: Thompson & Morgan
prop: sold also as seed strain. Blloms in as little as 16 weeks
from seed.